[HPforGrownups] Re: Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil (Nel Question - LONG)

[heidi tandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 38374


--- pippin_999 <foxmoth at qnet.com> wrote:
> Real-To:  "pippin_999" <foxmoth at qnet.com>
> 
> You're disregarding, I think, how the Slytherins
> came to be 150 
> points ahead of Gryffindor in the first place...it
> was because of 
> Draco Malfoy 's underhanded plot to catch them with
> Norbert. It's 
> poetic justice for being a sneak.

But that sort of flips right back to one of my initial
questions in this thread: was Draco's reporting of
Harry in PoA a good act, an evil act, or something
else?

Most posters, so far, have said that it wasn't an evil
act - Harry was breaking a school rule in beingin
Hogsmeade, and Draco was reporting on it. In PS/SS,
again, Harry (and Hermione) were breaking a school
rule (although for a "better" reason than Harry
engaged in rule-breaking in Book 3) and Draco was
reporting on it. Given that, IIRC, Gryffindor was 160
points down (in other words, Slytherin would've won by
10 even *if* Harry, Hermione and Neville hadn't lost
points) going into the Leaving Feast, I still think
that doing it then, instead of announcing it earlier -
even at *lunch* that day - would've been less of a
Nanny-nanny-boo-boo thing.

Now, if they'd lost points for being out of their
dorms the night they were supposed to have the
wizards' duel, I'd agree with you completely.

heidi

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